Improvement in screen-guard attachment



G. BRAIN, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN SCREEN-GUARD ATTACHMENT.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 71,691, dated December 3, 1867.

To all whom it may concern.' is drawn along, is at the inner side of the row Be it known that I, G.BRA1N, of Springof plants, and lthe adjustable plate B at the field, in the county of Clarke and State of Ohio, 'opposite side, and the earth is thrown up from have invented a new and Improved Screenthe shoe d (see Fig. 3) upon the screen by a Guard Attachment for Gultivator-Plows; and rotary winged shaft, e, driven from the front that the following description, taken in conwheel, f, of the machine. nection withthe accompanyingdrawings,here The screen A admits of ne soil only passina-fter referred to, forms ai'ull and exact speciing through it upon the plants, and the plate ication of the same, wherein I have set forth B prevents the soil being thrown beyond the the nature and principles of my said improveplants, and by adjusting this plate B more or ments, by which my invention may be distinless tine soil may be thrown upon or around f guished from all others of a similar class, tothe plants, as may be desired.

gethcr with such parts as I cla-im and desire To thelowerrear end ofthe screenAacurved to have secured to me by Letters Patent. share, C, is attached, to prevent clods of earth This invention relates to a new and `imfrom rolling upon the `plants as the screen proved 'screen-guard attachment for cultivator- A passes them. By this arrangement the plants plows, whereby clods of earth are prevented are prevented from being injured by the throwfrom being thrown upon the plants, and a ing of clods of earth upon them, and aline soil Y greater or less quantity of line earth thrown at the same time allowed to be thrown upon "/T 'T upon or around them, as may be required. or around them. Various plans have been de- In the accompanying sheet ofdrawings, Figvised with a view to effect this result; but ure 1 is a detached side view of my invention, none, so far as I am aware, have proved to be Fig. 2, a transverse section of the same, taken successful, as the means employed for the purin the line w x, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a perspective pose have prevented the ne soil as well as view of the same applied to a cultivator-plow. the clods from reaching the plants-a dei- Similar letters of reference indicate like ciency which is fully obviated by my invenparts. tion. v

A represents a screen, of suitable dimen- Having thus described my invention, I claim sions, which is attached to a cultivator-plow, as new and desire to secure by Letters Patas shown in Fig. 3. To the upper edge of this entscreen there is attached, by hinges a a., plate The screen A, in combination with the ad- B, said plate having curved or segment screws justable hinged plate B, applied to a cultivaa* attached, which pass through the end tor-plow, to operate in the manner substanpieces b b of the screen-frame and have nuts tially as and for the purpose set forth. 0 upon them, by turning or adjusting which Gr. BRAIN.

the plate B may have a greater or less degree Witnesses: of inclination relatively with the screen, as J As. L. TORBERT, may be desired. This screen, as the machine AMos BARR.

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